Aramide Tinubu In his latest series, “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight puts a spotlight on a very different gang from the Irish crime family of that series.
An intricate, fast-paced period drama homing in on a slew of characters who don’t usually get the spotlight, Hulu’s “A Thousand Blows” is a story of ambition, desire and violence.
The beautifully wielded but brutal narrative follows a band of female criminals, a pair of best friends newly emigrated from Jamaica and a murderous gangster desperately clinging to everything he’s forged.
Based on real-life figures, “A Thousand Blows” opens in London in 1880, on the day Hezekiah Moscow (an outstanding Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall) arrive from Morant Bay.
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